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MYSTERIOUS: Joe orton - What They Never Told You

Matriarchal dystopias: Joe Orton got there before the Two Ronnies

Brief letters: Up Against It and The Worm That Turned | War-readiness v human survival | White liberal response | A northern insult

The Guardian - UK

As If by Isabel Waidner review – surreal doppelganger story

Two uncannily similar men switch places in an existential farce that playfully explores the precarity of working life

The Guardian - UK

‘Mine isn’t food’: TikTok experiment comparing a 30-day-old US Big Mac to a Japanese one is the stuff of nightmares

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Entertaining Mr Sloane review: 'Simply too nice, even at its nastiest'

2/5 Joe Orton’s twisted comedy about sex and class should be ripe for a modern revival but here it is more Carry On than carnal

Evening Standard

Entertaining Mr Sloane review – Joe Orton’s murky comedy of despair and desire still unsettles

Tamzin Outhwaite and Jordan Stephens shine in Nadia Fall’s sharp revival of Orton’s 60s play – where lust and manipulation jostle under the chintz

The Guardian - UK

Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens to make stage debut at London’s Young Vic

The 33-year-old will star in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane.

Evening Standard

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

Drama on 3 may have lost its place but there’s no need for theatrics, it’s just the reality of change in an era of new formats

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The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny

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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner review – a surreal journey

The fantastical and the familiar merge in this energetic inquiry into class politics and cultural capital

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Malcolm Mowbray obituary

Film-maker who directed the 1984 classic A Private Function, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith

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Critics lament cuts to BBC radio drama – seedbed of UK talent

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

The Guardian - UK

Elspeth Weir obituary

Other lives: Painter and art therapist who shared her adventurous spirit and joy in life with others

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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers review – a spine-tingling adventure

Emma Smith’s wise and funny history of the physical book, from the Bible to boobytraps and Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘blooks’, is a thing to cherish

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I built a life on oversharing – until I saw its costs, and learned the quiet thrill of privacy

From social media to journalism, I shared in order to be heard. Now, I am beginning to listen to myself, says journalist Moya Lothian-McLean

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Portable Magic by Emma Smith review – a love letter to reading

From ancient China to Marilyn Monroe – this fascinating history celebrates the joy of ‘bookhood’

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Diary of a Somebody review – stunning drama from Joe Orton’s journal

The playwright’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling

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